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What’s going on with IXD@Pratt? Posts in this category cover news, announcements, and other important information about the IXD program at Pratt.

Design Critique: Bookshop (website)

The United States-based Bookshop is an ecommerce intended to help independent bookstores assert themselves online and reinforce their market share in the book industry, which has long been under Amazon’s influence.

Design Critique: Facebook (iOS app)

Facebook is popular and one of the largest global social networking platform. With Facebook accounts, users can communicate with others, sharing multimedia messages, and having Second-hand transactions. This blog post will focus on three features of Facebook—the navigations, the timeline, and the Marketplace. Facebook Navigations After logging in, users can automatically see their Navigation Bar is at …

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Weekly Critic on 500px.com

To begin with: An Introduction on 500px.com 500px.com is a website for both professional and amateur photographers to present, critique, sell, and purchase photographs or their service. Thus, because of the commodity here are high-quality photos and the selling process requires advanced knowledge on licensing, the website may target more experienced audiences. As a professional …

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Weekly Crit: Peloton

In the “Elements of User Experience”, Jesse James Garrett breaks down the user experience process into five elements or planes: strategy, scope, structure, skeleton, and surface. Today I will be critiquing Peloton’s website with these five elements in mind. Strategy: product objectives & user needs As Jesse mentions, this is the most abstract element. I …

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Evaluation Story : Friends of The Materials For The Arts

Problem:  Our client Friends of Materials for the Arts wanted feedback on the functioning of their website. They very recently had redesigned their website and hence were not up for making dramatic changes. Their also wanted us to focus on functioning over the visual aspect. We were asked to suggest improvements for the websites organization …

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